We've changed about a hundred books to meet California's strict standards for social acceptability, prudery, and recommended daily doses of handicapped people and nonwhites, and made some things look a little less 1982. It's kind of interesting. I'm making a list of the changes.

California doesn't so much practice revisionist literacy, though that's a good term--it has the STRICTEST standards for acceptability in children's literature, so a lot of companies design to CA standards so that it'll be accepted ANYWHERE.

Though there were some extremely sexy dancers that got cut out of a book on costumes because they showed too much skin. It was *nice* skin. Couldn't we leave that one in as a bone for the teacher? So to speak?